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temporary shocks in alternative international destinations to instrument for tourism flows across Spanish regions. We find that … a one standard deviation increase in tourist inflows leads to a 1 percentage-point increase in employment in the tourism …
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Western Europe, the relationship tends to turn from positive to negative at relatively high levels of tourism. The … instrumental variable analysis suggests that incoming tourism has a positive causal effect on attitudes towards immigration in both … Western and Eastern Europe. Overall, our study reveals an overlooked dimension of the tourism-migration nexus and highlights …
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This study contributes to the rapidly growing literature on women in tourism. It focuses on a group of 13 Caribbean …
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find a strong positive relationship between changes in attractiveness and changes in the local tourism-related economic … activity, with a positive impact on tourism expenditure and tourism employment, but no effect on total employment. In high … related to tourism and firms in the nontradable sector. We observe no effects on wage growth. We discuss our results in the …
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The literature on the union wage premium is among the most extensive in labour economics but unions' effects on other aspects of the wage-effort bargain have received much less attention. We contribute to the literature through a study of the union premium in paid holiday entitlements, using...
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Understanding the selection of workers into informality is a policy priority to design programs to increase formalization across Sub-Saharan Africa, where nine out of ten workers are informal. This paper estimates a model of self-selection with entry barriers into the formal sector to identify...
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labour market segmentation in Britain. …
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formal methods (e.g., newspaper ads). In equilibrium, the matching process generates segmentation in the labor market because …
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This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three … if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter. Longitudinal data are used to assess wage differentials and … mobility under the assumption of no segmentation. It finds evidence of a formal wage premium relative to informal salaried jobs …
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labor market comparative advantage and segmentation in the participation and earnings performance of workers in formal and …. Our results offer evidence for both comparative advantage and segmentation. No significant differences between the … are more consistent with segmentation. …
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